This session presents an overview of Ethernet-based storage networking technologies and solutions. It examinesthe relevant storage protocols, features and benefits of storage systems using those protocols, and where they aredeployed in a typical IT environment today.The presentation goes on to examine the latest developments in Ethernet standards, and storage protocols, including DataCenter Bridging, FCoE and pNFS, and how they may change the storage landscape over the next few years.

In this session, Gordon Graylish will review how Intel is playing a leading role to enable internet expansion through the embedded internet and enabling Cloud computing to be realized through the evolution of infrastructure capabilities that hold the promise of greater efficiencies, less complexity, improved asset utilization and reduced TCO.

In this session, Gordon Graylish will review how Intel is playing a leading role to enable internet expansion through the embedded internet and enabling Cloud computing to be realized through the evolution of infrastructure capabilities that hold the promise of greater efficiencies, less complexity, improved asset utilization and reduced TCO.

An overview of the Red Hat Cloud Vision followed by a detailed explanation of the various key components, technologies and offerings including topics such as deltacloud, Cloud Engine, Red Hat Cloud Foundations and Red Hat Platform as a Service (PaaS).

Traditional storage and file sharing infrastructures cannot normally scale to the tens of Petabytes and tens of thousands of connected users that globally distributed enterprise wide cloud deployments require.Quantum shows how using their StorNext 4.0 data management solution, this can be achieved using common and open hardware platforms.

Building next generation datacenters through IO virtiualisation.

Arista, founded to deliver cloud networking solutions for large datacenter and computing environments, offers best-of-breed 10 GbE switches that set the standard for scalability, robustness, and price-performance. At the core of Arista's 7000 Family is the Extensible Operating System, a modern software architecture with self-healing, live in-service software upgrade capabilities.

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Bull is an Information Technology company, focusing on open and secure systems operating in over 50 countries. Our mission is to help corporations and public sector organisations optimise the architecture, operations and financial return of their Information Systems, supporting their core business processes. Bull is the only European IT company that is positioned to deliver all the key elements of the IT value chain. In the UK, Bull has more than 30 years experience in the Public Sector...

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Intel [NASDAQ: INTC], the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. We are Intel Sponsors of Tomorrow™, not only through our technical innovation, but through our endless efforts in education, environmental sustainability, healthcare, and much, much more. We believe that technology makes life more exciting and can help improve the lives of people around the world. Therein lies the endless opportunity. A...

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LSI (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products, which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking markets. Visit LSI on stand 728 to find out more about...

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QLogic is a global leader and technology innovator in high performance networking, delivering adapters, switches and ASICs that power today’s data, storage and server networks for leading Global 2000 corporations. The company delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of networking products that include Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) for FCoE, Ethernet adapters, Fibre Channel adapters and switches and iSCSI adapters and routers. QLogic is also a leading provider of InfiniBand switches and ada...

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Since 1988, VSPL, a VAR and Systems Integrator based in Marlow, has helped many of the UK's most demanding government, scientific and corporate organisations solve their IT requirements. During that time, we have worked on some really exciting projects and have solved often complex IT problems with innovative solutions.

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While dating can be chock full of obstacles, eHarmony is working to make sure a network outage is not one of them. With nearly 100 members on average marrying every day, the unrelenting and rapidly growing network bandwidth required to support that level of customer connection posed a great challenge for the relationship site.

To provide a reliable, flexible and high performance network capable of effectively scaling to answer future demands, eHarmony deployed the Force10 Networks® TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers and the C300 resilient switch.

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How do you take data from the world’s largest proton collider and distribute it to scientists around the globe?

That’s the challenge the technology group at Geneva-based CERN faced in designing the network to support the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is slated to go on-line in 2008.

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Converged Infrastructure:
A converged infrastructure enables an organisation to do more with fewer resources. Converged Infrastructure solutions drive business agility, innovation and performance improvements, while reducing risk, complexity and cost.
IT proliferation has stretched many businesses to breaking point, and business agility is severely constrained. Converged infrastructure, a holistic solution that enables all end user sub systems to work in tandem on a single IP network, offers new and more effective ways of working which address the following typical challenges:

• Escalating IT management and administration costs
• A desire to move mission-critical environments to standards-based infrastructure
• Limited datacenter space; need to improve server consolidation, virtualisation, and utilisation
• Risk associated with older legacy systems
• A need to grow and scale capacity in line with shrinking IT budgets
• Break free of proprietary solutions to achieve true inter-operability through the adoption of open industry standards
• An approach to unifying multiple communications methods: voice, e-mail, messaging, video etc
• Security threats